eBooks

Diesel eBooks put together "A Short History of eBooks” Timeline

Friday, 23 July 2010 09:44 Written by Lara Aucamp

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The Diesel eBook Team has put together a timeline featuring the important milestones in the brief history of eBooks.

Penguin opens new chapter with cross-media eBooks

Thursday, 22 July 2010 12:17 Written by Lara Aucamp

On Tuesday, Penguin released the first electronic book with a video tie-in, opening up a new chapter for ebooks. Penguin Books’ CEO, John Makinson gave an overview of how publishers might approach the iPad as a publishing platform. They hope that this deal will serve as a model for other cross-media partnerships.

Lessons we can learn from fashion's free culture

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:06 Written by Lara Aucamp

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Right now industries with a lot of copyright protection might actually have something to learn from industries such as fashion. What is the type of ownership model, in a digital world, that will lead to the most innovation? Fashion might be very good place to start looking for a model for creative industries in the future.

Johanna Blakley gave a very insightful talk on TED.com regarding the Fashion industry's take on plagiarism.

What we know (or don't know) about Google Editions

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:40 Written by Lara Aucamp

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It has been widely reported that Google will be releasing their “cloud bookstore,” known as Google Editions, sometime this year, stocking more than 4 million books. However, there is still a lot of confusion regarding what we actually know about Google Editions. Here is a very informative article about "Google Editions: What We Know (and Don’t Know)".

The article summarizes what the people “in the know” are saying, what the rumor mill is spinning, and what Google, with its tight lips, has inferred. It covers the following topics: Which books, Platforms, Partners, Epub, Cost and price, Enhanced ebooks, Print on demand, Google tablet and more.

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